“God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time…” — Jeremy Taylor

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.